[SWLUG] Serial terminal echoing(and things)

[Kris Zani]

I agree that python is pretty cool.  but very wierd at first.  code 
indention as a structure!!

C# on the other hand is a very nice language but I've never played at a 
low level - communicating with a parallel device for example.  as a high 
level language with network programming, databases and Windows GUIs its 
very nice though.  haven't got around to playing with mono yet so I 
can't give you any tips on that one way or the other.  One word of 
warning though, C# on windows is very slow.  I wrote the same db front 
end in C#, python and VB6 and python was the most rapid, the .NET 
version though looked beautiful but was the slowest and we're talking by 
whole seconds.  I hope mono isn't plagued by the same problem.

Steve Anderson wrote:

> Kris Zani wrote:
>
>> would like to see a few piccies of this though.  Sounds like a 
>> thoroughly difficult and mainly pointless exercise - right up my 
>> street!!
>
>
> When it looks less like a collection of components wired up sat in the 
> bottom of a filing card box, and more like how I want it to look, 
> photos will be forthcoming! Right now, it's really NOTHING to look at 
> - it works in as much as I can boot it up, connect to the network and 
> post to my blog through Links (that took some doing - think I'll do 
> some scripting to make that less painful) and display stuff on the 
> serial screen. The Nokia screen hack is forthcoming, and I'll be 
> wielding my soldering iron next week to do that.
>
> There's a couple of projects on SourceForge that got me going on the 
> Nokia LCD lark, and it makes sense - easy to backlight and you get a 
> small, graphical mono LCD for 99p plus shipping on eBay. I need to 
> decide how best to drive it though - one of the SF projects is a C 
> library, which means I'd have to dust off my exceedingly dusty C 
> knowledge, and the other is a program that can display bitmaps on it, 
> so I could prepare the time in sections, glue it together in any other 
> language and squirt it down the parallel port. Not so elegant but 
> nobody will see it =)
>
> By the way, I'm also open to suggestions on programming languages. I'd 
> originally fancied C# in Mono, because it's a skill I could use at 
> work as well, or failing that Python. Both languages I fancy learning, 
> and this *is* a learning experience.
>
> Steve
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